Okay, I know I am a little sleep deprived, but this Walmart commercial made me laugh until I cried.

Hi all! I'm posting to pimp milliways_bar's efforts to do our part to help the victims of the disaster in Haiti. We are having a mini auction with proceeds going to the relief effort.

I have promised hand made/hand crafted cards, and my sister as donated two of her bottle cap dolls, and many others are offering icons, drabbles, fics, banners, etc. Go check it out! it is open to EVERYONE!

I am pleased to say that my boss talked with me this morning, and with the co-worker I was having trouble with. I don't know what she said about me, but it must not have been bad enough to get me in trouble of any kind. I was offered more time in the classroom (which I love) and a little time monitoring the playground (which I don't think I will mind) to make up for the loss in hours. In fact, I will actually end up with about an hour and a half more each week, which is always a bonus.

Work was much less stressful today, even with the kids asking me why I wasn't in the lunchroom. I just told them that I was assigned other jobs during that time, and they accepted it easily.

We had a hell of a storm last night, and it was raining sideways for a while because of the high winds, but luckily we didn't loose any shingles from the roof, and no trees are down in our yard. All of the retention basins around here are pretty full, but that is what they are for. We are supposed to be getting an even worse storm tonight. In spite of all of that, the temperature outside is a very nice 55F. It has been in the low 70's lately, but I think the cold weather will be back before all is said and done.

Yeah...that's all I've got to report! Hope every is going groovily.

"Hey mom! I just built a tazer! Can I try it out on you?"

I still laughed, though.

DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop) - Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits

Went to a wedding this weekend, which was lovely. It is always nice to see family gather to celebrate love.

On a sadder note, Four people I know lost family members this past week. I hope that all of them and their families are finding comfort in their happy memories. Life is short, but love is long.

I am proud to say that I stuck with it the first week of my diet (except for Saturday, because of the wedding--I cheated there.) The scale says I lost six pounds, which sounds great until I remember that the first few weeks are always the easiest ones to lose weight in. I am happy, but know it's just the beginning.

I had a Parent Teacher conference today for my youngest child. He is doing better than last semester and so I guess we'll keep him for a couple more months. I will just say that God makes children cute for a reason...so we don't kill them when they are being unbearably trying. My oldest continues to excel, but his teacher is recovering from shoulder surgery, and isn't going to be holding conferences unless the parents insist.

Starting tomorrow, I am going to be getting a couple of more hours a week at work. I only get twenty-three hours on a good week, so this will be a nice boost. I will be working with a group of first graders on their reading, phonics, etc. I will find out more about it tomorrow, but it's an area I have experience in, and I really enjoy working with the kids and seeing their progress.

Other than that, life continues much as it always has. We're healthy and happy and doing our best. That concludes this boring update of the A is for Amy LJ entry. As you were.

My son and his best friend made this in class, and I thought it was really cute. He would be thrilled to have a few clicks on it, if you'd like to make him happy!

Thank you lunamazes for the virtual snowflake cookie! It just made my day! *hugs*

A great big hug and a happy thanks to the anonymous sender of the snowflake cookie virtual gift.

*beams*

Hi! *waves*

Yes! I am waving at you! Hi! How are you?